On a fair-week evening in Fairlea, the midway lights come up over the grandstand while a loop of motorhomes and trailers sits nose to tail behind the exhibit halls. The families in those rigs spend the day walking out to the barns and back for lunch in the air conditioning, then wander over again for the last ride of the night. Camping on the grounds puts the whole State Fair of West Virginia a short walk from your door for the full run.
The fair lands in mid-August, with the next run of dates on its own site, and August in the Greenbrier Valley is warm enough that a week in a motorhome means running the air every afternoon. That makes a hookup site the prize, and the fair hands those out through an email waitlist that starts contacting people in April, while a dry-camping area takes the rigs that don't land one. Get on the list and confirm the site before you book the rig, because the site you land decides which motorhome or trailer makes sense.
The fairground campgrounds open on the Monday before the gates, and the fair asks for no early arrivals and no saving spots for friends. Plan the drive in for that Monday, get set up while the grounds are still filling in, and the kids have the barns mostly to themselves for a day before the crowds arrive.
Fair week also pulls on every rental and every hookup pad around Lewisburg at once. The motorhomes and trailers listed in town get booked by the same families chasing the same fairground sites, and hookup pads across the valley get scarce on the same dates, so treat the rig and the site as one booking made months out.
If nobody in the group wants to tow, some owners in Lewisburg and Ronceverte will deliver a travel trailer to your fairground site and set it up. Whether a listing does that is up to its owner, so check before you book, and the site reservation stays yours to make either way.
Greenbrier State Forest, under Kate's Mountain at Caldwell
East of town at Caldwell, the Greenbrier State Forest campground follows Harts Run under a hardwood canopy, with Kate's Mountain rising behind the pads. Each site has an electric post and a picnic table, which is all a parked week really asks for: coffee outside in the morning, a cool rig to come back to in the afternoon, and the same table under the trees at night. Locals treat it as a weekend habit, and a full week here is the quiet version of the valley, best in October when the leaves turn and the loop empties out.
West Virginia State Parks lists 16 campsites for tents and trailers with electric hookups and a bathhouse. With that few pads, reserve the site before you settle on the rig, and ask the park about fit if you have your eye on a longer motorhome.
The Greenbrier River Trail, Watoga State Park and the Cranberry Glades north of town make a move-every-night trip that suits two people in a smaller rig, and the Lewisburg campervan page covers that route. West of here, the New River Gorge and its arch bridge are a rig week of their own on the West Virginia RV page.